Are we supposed to believe that “Baby Doc” Duvalier decided, all by himself, to return to Haiti on Sunday after 25 years in exile? Duvalier’s return to Haiti took place just two days after Tunisia’s President Ben Ali left his country, a day after vowing to remain in office until the end of his term [...]
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The “unrecognized” Bedouin village of Al-Arakib (Al-Araqib) in the northern Negev, inhabited by Bedouin Arabic-speaking citizens of Israel, was bulldozed and destroyed again this morning. It is being reported as the 9th demolition since this summer. The stated purpose of the demolition is to make way for the planting, by the Jewish National Fund (JNF), [...]
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The East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan is facing a new crisis point. According to a late-night report from the Silwan Information Center (Silwanic), posted on their website here, “Silwanic has been informed that the illegal settlement of Beit Yonatan in the Baten al-Hawa neighborhood of Silwan will be evicted at 9am either tomorrow [16 January] [...]
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Here is an astonishing photo of the new, cleaned-up approach from Gaza to Israel, with thanks and acknowledgment to World Vision’s Mike Bailey, who visited Gaza this week (and then posted this photo on Facebook). This is a far cry from the miserable, dank, urine-scented concrete tunnel where groups of miserable pro-Fatah people without enough [...]
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The hotel part of the Shepherd’s Hotel in Sheikh Jarrah is what was demolished on Sunday by Israeli heavy equipment hired by a settler organization. The only work done since the initial frenzied hours has been rubble removal. The “palace” part is still standing. That is, the part that is most historic, and most architecturally [...]
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The Foreign Press Association (FPA) in Israel issued a formal protest about security abuse and harassment of journalists trying to enter a press conference that was given on Tuesday evening by Israel’s Prime Minister Benyahim Netanyahu. “All Government Press Office (GPO) cardholders are known to authorities + have already undergone extensive background checks”, the FPA [...]
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UPDATE: Jonathan Pollack was released one month early (even more than one month early, actually), for good behavior, on Thursday 24 February… (1) Israeli activist Jonathan Pollak, convicted for protesting the Israeli-military-administered sanctions against 1.5 million people in Gaza, reported to jail at Hermon Prison this morning to start serving a three-month prison sentence, apparently [...]
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At 5am today (Sunday — the first day of the Israeli work week), Israeli demolition machines that look like large mechanical dinosaurs arrived at the site of the “Shepherd’s Hotel” in East Jerusalem. Just over an hour later, these dinosaur-like machines began their work: Hagit Ofran of Peace Now writes on her blog, Eyes on [...]
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Hundreds of Israelis went to the West Bank village of Bil’in today for the regular Palestinian weekly demonstration against The Wall and its confiscation of half of Bil’in land — at least some of which should be returned, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled three years ago. Some photos showed demonstrators actually across the dirt security [...]
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(1) On Monday, apparently late (9:30 at night), the IDF invited selected journalists and “right-wing bloggers” (according to +972 magazine) to cast doubt on reports (and evidence) that Jawaher Abu Rahmeh (Abu Rahman) somehow died of teargas inhalation on 1 January that was used by the Army a day earlier, at a regular weekly demonstration [...]
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